IT priorities 2018: Regs, big data, cloud loom large for GRC pros

Regulatory initiatives remain at the top of GRC pros' lists of tech projects, according to TechTarget's annual IT Priorities 2018 survey, but grab less attention than last year. IT professionals working in compliance and corporate governance appear to be feeling less heat when it comes to allocating time and money to big regulatory initiatives in 2018. That's according to findings of the TechTarget IT Priorities 2018 survey: Among the slice of survey takers who reported working in compliance or corporate governance, 40% reported their organization planned to implement a compliance or legal discovery initiative this year, down from the nearly two-thirds of governance, risk and compliance survey takers in 2017 who said they planned to do so.